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The Time Has Come: Changing Patterns of Power

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This chapter brings together notions used in previous chapters, such as the social structuring of health organisations and the social closure mechanisms implemented in the making of the nursing profession. The chapter grew out of further engagement with practice nurses and nurses sitting on managerial positions, as well as my own awareness of the realities they had faced. In growing as a profession in the context of an important heath reform, the use of power became evident. Academic credentials is an institutional mechanism that serves not only to access the job market, but also to shape the image of a profession on people’s minds. This chapter tells the story of how nurses faced medical dominance by forming different alliances and using brand-new credentials.

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Ayala, R.A. (2020). The Time Has Come: Changing Patterns of Power. In: Towards a Sociology of Nursing. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8887-3_6

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